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Earth Science 59 2019 1824 45 44 217 12689

Roshanka Ranasinghe publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Roshanka Ranasinghe between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Roshanka Ranasinghe published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 8.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2012. 25 of the 282 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 23. Peak 23 publications in 2012. 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 4 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 23 publications 2013: 19 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 22 publications 2019: 14 publications 2020: 19 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 15 publications
1994 2025

282 publications in total across all disciplines

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Roshanka Ranasinghe: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 1
1995 2
1996 2
1997 0
1998 2
1999 7
2000 1
2001 4
2002 0
2003 1
2004 2
2005 4
2006 6
2007 10
2008 0
2009 15
2010 3
2011 18
2012 23
2013 19
2014 13
2015 6
2016 14
2017 4
2018 22
2019 14
2020 19
2021 14
2022 13
2023 18
2024 10
2025 15
Total 282
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Roshanka Ranasinghe publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roshanka Ranasinghe sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 208–217 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 217 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292 217
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Roshanka Ranasinghe D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roshanka Ranasinghe sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 59 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136 59
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Roshanka Ranasinghe is affiliated with the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in related subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

Their work addresses various topics including Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Climate Variability and Models.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Roshanka Ranasinghe include:

  • Michalis Vousdoukas
  • Trang Minh Duong
  • Janaka Bamunawala
  • Panagiotis Athanasiou
  • Ebru Kirezci

Their research has been published extensively in various scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coastal Engineering Proceedings
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Roshanka Ranasinghe include:

  • "Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion", 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels", 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Projected 21st century changes in extreme wind-wave events", 2020, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The State of the World’s Beaches

    Arjen Luijendijk;Gerben Hagenaars;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Fedor Baart

  • Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Theocharis A. Plomaritis;Theocharis A. Plomaritis

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

    Ebru Kirezci;Ian R. Young;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Sanne Muis

  • A New Alternative to Saving Our Beaches from Sea-Level Rise: The Sand Engine

    Marcel J.F. Stive;Matthieu A. de Schipper;Arjen P. Luijendijk;Stefan G.J. Aarninkhof

  • The Southern Oscillation Index, wave climate, and beach rotation

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Rodney McLoughlin;Andrew Short;Graham Symonds

  • Estimating coastal recession due to sea level rise: Beyond the Bruun rule

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;David Callaghan;Marcel J. F. Stive

  • Shoreline response to submerged structures: A review

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Ian L. Turner

  • Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels

    Claudia Tebaldi;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Michalis Vousdoukas;D. J. Rasmussen

  • Assessment and integration of conventional, RTK-GPS and image-derived beach survey methods for daily to decadal coastal monitoring

    Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Andrew D. Short;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe

  • Morphodynamics of intermediate beaches: a video imaging and numerical modelling study

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Graham Symonds;Kerry Black;Rob Holman

  • A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping

    Rafael Almar;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Erwin W. J. Bergsma;Erwin W. J. Bergsma;Harold Diaz

  • Numerical modeling of low-frequency wave dynamics over a fringing coral reef

    Ap Van Dongeren;Ryan Lowe;Andrew Pomeroy;Andrew Pomeroy;Duong Minh Trang

  • A reevaluation of coastal embayment rotation: The dominance of cross‐shore versus alongshore sediment transport processes, Collaroy‐Narrabeen Beach, southeast Australia

    M. D. Harley;M. D. Harley;I. L. Turner;A. D. Short;R. Ranasinghe;R. Ranasinghe

  • African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates

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  • Climate-change impact assessment for inlet-interrupted coastlines

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Trang Minh Duong;Stefan Uhlenbrook;Stefan Uhlenbrook;Dano Roelvink;Dano Roelvink

  • Morphodynamic upscaling with the MORFAC approach: Dependencies and sensitivities

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Cilia Swinkels;Arjen Luijendijk;Dano Roelvink

  • Projected 21st century changes in extreme wind-wave events

    Alberto Meucci;Ian R. Young;Mark Hemer;Ebru Kirezci

  • The effects of storm clustering on beach profile variability

    Harshinie Karunarathna;Douglas Pender;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Andrew D. Short

  • The initial morphological response of the sand engine: a process based modelling study

    A.P. Luijendijk;Ranasinghe W M R J B Ranasinghe;B. Huisman;M.A. de Schipper

  • Comparison of Coastal Vulnerability Index applications for Barcelona Province

    Aysun Koroglu;Aysun Koroglu;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;José A. Jiménez;Ali Dastgheib

  • Rip spacing and persistence on an embayed beach

    Robert A. Holman;G. Symonds;G. Symonds;E. B. Thornton;R. Ranasinghe

  • A morphodynamic model to simulate the seasonal closure of tidal inlets

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Charitha Pattiaratchi;Gerhard Masselink

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel J. F. Stive
Marcel J. F. Stive Delft University of Technology
David P. Callaghan
David P. Callaghan University of Queensland
Andrew D. Short
Andrew D. Short University of Sydney
Ian L. Turner
Ian L. Turner University of New South Wales
Charitha Pattiaratchi
Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia
Mitchell D. Harley
Mitchell D. Harley University of New South Wales
Ad Reniers
Ad Reniers Delft University of Technology
Shreedhar Maskey
Shreedhar Maskey IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Robert A. Holman
Robert A. Holman Oregon State University
Kathleen L. McInnes
Kathleen L. McInnes Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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